Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presidents and professors of seventeen colleges in the State of Ohio have organized an association to discuss questions of interest and promote a spirit of fraternity. Nine of these colleges have the word "university" attached to their title...
...Robinson, and "Under which King," by Miss Harriet W. Preston. The number also contains several interesting essays, among which are "Butterflies in Disguise," by Samuel H. Scudder, the well-known Cambridge entomologist. "A Plea for Humor," by Agnes Repplier, a thoughtful article on politics entitled "The Spirit of American Politics as shown in the Late Election," by Charles W. Clark, and "Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries." The poetry of the number is "Brianda de Bardaxi," by Henry C. Lea, which is a weird description of the fate of Circe's victims...
Despite these real difficulties, however, there yet remains abundant cause for self-congratulation. The policy of the faculty in regard to athletics, as mentioned in the report, has become wiser and more lenient, and has thus added another incentive to the spirit of co-operation which already binds to a considerable degree faculty and student. It is this sort of policy, and this only, which will allow our University to exert its fullest influence...
...held in the trophy room of the gymnasium last evening. Only eleven men presented themselves, and of these only three have ever pulled on a tug-of-war team. The outlook at present, therefore, for a good team is far from encouraging. It shows an utter lack of spirit and enthusiasm on the part of the freshmen when out of a class of three hundred only eleven men are willing to try for positions on the team. The men trying for the crew are not allowed to try for the tug but in the rest of the class it seems...
...athletic methods, in the Columbia Spectator. It is in very bad taste, to say the least, for a paper of the standing which the Spectator has always held hitherto, to ridicule the defeats of another college, and to make the spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style of writing...